Thy-1 predicts poor prognosis and is associated with self-renewal in ovarian cancer
Abstract Background Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer death in the United States despite effective first-line systemic chemotherapy. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) retain the ability to self-renew and proliferate and may be a means of harboring disease that evades standard treatmen...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-11-01
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Series: | Journal of Ovarian Research |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13048-019-0590-5 |